An
epidural injection is a medical procedure where medication is injected into the space around the spinal cord to reduce pain and inflammation.
Full definition
For example, recently the morons that operate an certain insurer of last resort in Georgia tried to low ball a client who had incurred $ 15,000.00 worth of bills
from epidural injections at Resurgens Orthopedics and their only argument was «this is only a soft tissue injury.»
Siranda Torvaldsen of the University of Sydney, Australia, found that 416 women given the opioid drug fentanyl
by epidural injection during delivery were twice as likely to have stopped breastfeeding their baby by the age of six months compared with 312 women who didn't receive epidural fentanyl (International Breastfeeding Journal, DOI: 10.1186 / 1746 -4358-1-24).
Typically
most epidural injections take about 15 - 20 sec of fluoroscopy time, that is in order of 10x less than typical chest x-ray.
More advanced multimodal techniques should also be considered when appropriate; these
include epidural injections and catheters, local blockades, and constant - rate infusions (CRIs).
Against a nurse anesthetist for a client who suffered cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of an improperly
placed epidural injection.
$ 35,000 settlement with New York Liquidation Bureau for claimant involved in a motor vehicle accident who suffered neck and back injuries requiring
cervical epidural injections.
At times,
epidural injections or other pain management modalities will be recommended by the medical practitioner.
In plaintiff's suit for the wrongful death of her husband from fungal meningitis allegedly resulting from
an epidural injection of a contaminated steroid produced by a compounding pharmacy and used by defendant health care providers, a Roanoke City Circuit Court...